The planet
Jupiter has a system of
rings known as the
rings of Jupiter or the
Jovian ring system. It was the third ring system to be discovered in the
Solar System, after those of
Saturn and
Uranus. It was first observed in 1979 by the
Voyager 1 space probe and thoroughly investigated in the 1990s by the
Galileo orbiter. It has also been observed by the
Hubble Space Telescope and from
Earth for the past 23 years. Ground-based observations of the rings require the largest available
telescopes.